Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aiden Wilson Tozer

One of the most popular current errors, and the one out of which springs most of the noisy, blustering religious activity in evangelical circles, is the notion that as times change the church must change with them.

Chester Bennington

Alone in a world, With millions of souls Walking in circles Trapped in their dreams unhealthy, unclean walking in circles, now do not disturb scream in silence everyone's sleeping

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle

Charles Bradlaugh

Atheists would teach men to be moral now, not because God offers as an inducement reward by and by, but because in the virtuous act itself immediate good is insured to the doer and the circle surrounding him.

Charles Baudelaire

Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.

Chaka Khan

I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

A man's longest purposes will be his best purposes. It is true, life is short and uncertain; but it is better to live on the short arc of a large circle than to describe the whole circumference of a small circle.

Charles Hamilton Houston

We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

Charles Frazier

Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.

Anne Sullivan

Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.

Dave Band

We find love hiding here in the shadows in the darkness maybe,its up to you and I to bring to the night.

Michael Gallagher

Usually complete darkness is a visual metaphor; being crunched down is a visual of a mental state.

William Shakespeare

The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

Akhenaton

As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.

Chris Abani

You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

Chris Abani

Narrative is a very feeble weapon in the face of human darkness and yet it's all we have. That we have to hang the transformation and survival of our species on the journey and transformation of one singular person so far outside of what we expect they can do.

Cheryl Strayed

I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild. I didn't embrace the word as my new name because it defined negative aspects of my circumstances or life, but because even in my darkest days—those very days in which I was naming myself—I saw the power of the darkness. Saw that, in fact, I had strayed and that I was a stray and that from the wild places my straying had brought me, I knew things I couldn't have known before.

Chanakya

For the moon though one, dispels the darkness, which the stars, though numerous, do not.

Anne Sullivan

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

Anne Sullivan

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

Anne Sullivan

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

Jeff Kinney

Working with Dav Pilkey was a dream come true. Dav is incredibly funny, and he's been a hero of mine for a long time. It was great bringing the 'Wimpy Kid' and 'Captain Underpants' worlds together!

John Perkins

We're aware that there's a worldwide shortage of refinery capacity and to that extent, we've let it be known that we'd be amenable to discussing the possibility in Nova Scotia, and we have had discussions with a couple of parties.

Frederick Saunders

Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

Frederick Saunders

How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage!

Arthur Frank Burns

As you take leave of [your school], as you graduate into a new life of the mind, may each of you ask yourself this: What am I doing to increase the sum hope of the world? ... What am I doing to teach someone else what I have learned?

Houssaye Houssaye

Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.